painting

Hi, I want to clad a scruffy bedroom ceiling using "uPVC hollow board for soffit and interior cladding". I'm using this because it's lightweight and cheaper than wood paneling. It's the usual white colour, but I want to paint it (probably a cream colour), so it looks more like wood cladding...

I had a team of "professionals" repaint the drywalls of a newly-purchased house. A few days after they completed the work, two kinds of defects appeared on the walls, in a large number of different spots. The first kind (depicted below) is the paint looking either depressed or protruded over...

Hi all, started using the diamond range from Dulux yesterday, hot day, add around 7% of water added to help consistency. It was quite smooth anyway, though, thought add some water would help. Though as soon as roll paint on walls and final lap the wet edges 3 mins later, literally the paint is...

Hi all, started using the diamond range from Dulux yesterday, hot day, add around 7% of water added to help consistency. It was quite smooth anyway, though, thought add some water would help. Though as soon as roll paint on walls and final lap the wet edges 3 mins later, literally the paint is...

Hi guys, I am having serious problems with this Paint finish (Diamond), i opted for highest durability finish tinted colour (dusted moss 4) to paint over my 5 year old emulsion painted wall.Though i have been having a nightmare with this paints drying times. It is just drying way to quickly...

I've just paid a small fortune to have the render (roughcast) painted on my house. The chimneys are a particular problem and needed scaffolding. While the scaffolding is still up I wondered if I could apply a coating to extend the life/look of the finish - in particular inhibit the re-growth of...

Hi All, I have double coated my bedroom walls with a beautiful "Dusted Moss (Colour)" Dulux Matt paint from my local Homebase which was on offer. It was the standard matt finish (no durability element to it) The walls are technically finished now and look amazing, though, I had second...

I've putty pointed some windows using linseed oil putty. Can I paint over this type of putty using a water based paint? For the record I have some water based zinsser exterior allcoat. The putty doesn't seem to indicate anything, all it says is allow 7 days to dry before painting. It's the...

Ok so i've made a bit of botch up. I lightly sanded down some exterior gloss window frames and primed using dulux primer under coat and then painted the frames using dulux satin wood which is only suitable for interior instead of the gloss which is suitable for exterior. Can I paint over...

Hi All, I have run into a slight problem, my ceiling had some very bad cracks in them, I reached out to my plaster who plastered the ceiling and cracks. A month passed and the same old cracks returned. Mist coat was applied to the new plaster ceiling after a few weeks. I informed my plasterer...

Hi, I have a wooden window sill which has multiple layers of gloss paint. A large section of it has peeled off to barewood. Now the surface level between the remaining paint and the bare wood is almost 2-3 mm. How do I repaint the sill so that I get a nice overall even surface - I've tried to...

Hoping you can help as I made a mistake on my painting - I had been using a plaster primer that didn't need diluting for a mist coat. Everyone told me to 'just use Leyland Trade' which I did, but I didn't add the 10% water for the mist coat. Currently I have a base coat (not diluted) on the...

5.5mm and 9mm hardwood ply services boxing in a kitchen. Will wood primer cause delamination? I'd like to end up with the same paint on the box and adjacent walls, not too worried about cracking between varying substrates as there's already breeze and stud walls so plenty of corner cracking...

Hi all, We are having our bathroom re-done and are on a budget and time constraint due to baby bump growing fast! My husband took off all the bathroom tiles (floor to ceiling) yesterday and the walls are uneven and going to be difficult, time-consuming and costly to plaster. My builder has...

Hello! I've been repairing a few blown tapes in a 3-year-old house. But after painting, it looks like the jointing compound has sunk? I did 5 stages of compound: Pre-filled gap in the corner with Make Good jointing compound (very similar to Easi Fill) First layer to bed the tape into (metal...

I painted some doors in Dulux Quick Dry Satinwood (water based) about 12 months ago. Prepped well (sanding, primer, etc) and they came up really nice. I did 1 coat acrylic primer, 2 coats top. Since then we had some unexpected building work done, and they are all dirty enough to require...

I painted Dulux Supermatt onto dry plaster without watering it down (stupidly not reading the instructions I just used it like I usually use paint). I now realise - too late - that I should have watered it down (just from actually reading the instructions). I did the first coat yesterday and...

I have garden fence that is made of rough sawn timber and previously painted with creocote. The fence is need of repainting but has a lot of grime and that green algea/mould stuff on it near the bottom. Its difficult to sand down becuase of the previous fence treatment and the wood being rough...

Hello fellow DIYers! I absolutely hate painting, it's the worst job for me. And I've gone and painted my living room and it's not gone great :-( As you can see in the photos, the wall looks fine looking straight on, but looking at an angle in certain lights you can see loads of patches, I...

I have some attractive metal gates, with golf ball size spheres along the tops and narrow spaces between the uprights. The paint is flaking and I would ideally like to make them smooth and glossy. So, preparation being key, I wonder if you experts can tell me whether I should use sanding...